UN warns against 'vampiric' global water use

[onthedarkside]

 

A United Nations report has warned of a looming global water crisis and an "imminent risk" of shortages due to overconsumption and climate change.

 

The world is "blindly travelling a dangerous path" of "vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment", the report says.

 

Its publication comes before the first major UN water summit since 1977.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65035041

 

[Tippaporn]

Create a crisis and then step in to provide the solution.  An age old tactic.  It all leads to social engineering and all for a price to be borne by those who can least afford it.

[DaLa]

What drought?   I've been drowning in gloom and doom from various authorities / scientists/ government reports for years.

 

Peter cried wolf anyone.

Edited March 22, 2023 by DaLa
missing word. and spelling.

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7 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Create a crisis and then step in to provide the solution.  An age old tactic.  It all leads to social engineering and all for a price to be borne by those who can least afford it.

Really? Tell that to the citizens of America's southwest where water levels on the major electric generating reservoirs are approaching the point where they won't produce electricity. Tell them how everything on the Colorado river is just fine. And while you're at it, tell them that Saudi owned farms that are draining the aquifer so they can grow alfalfa to feed their dairy  cows in Saudi Arabia  are nothing to worry about. 

 

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[Credo]

7 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Create a crisis and then step in to provide the solution.  An age old tactic.  It all leads to social engineering and all for a price to be borne by those who can least afford it.

As @placeholder a lot of people in the Southwest of the US are suffering.  It's interesting that the right-wingers who have built in unincorporated areas and had nearby cities provide water because their wells are dry are wanting the government to force the cities to provide them with water.  The cities say they can't.   These are the same people, from the same places, who don't want the government telling them what to do.  Apparently, it's OK for them to decide what others have to do.  It seems to me it's just a matter of who gets to do the 'social engineering'.   

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7 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Create a crisis and then step in to provide the solution.  An age old tactic.  It all leads to social engineering and all for a price to be borne by those who can least afford it.

Or how about this

National Climate Assessment: Great Plains’ Ogallala Aquifer drying out

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/national-climate-assessment-great-plains’-ogallala-aquifer-drying-out

[Bkk Brian]

15 hours ago, DaLa said:

What drought?   I've been drowning in gloom and doom from various authorities / scientists/ government reports for years.

 

Peter cried wolf anyone.

The world's a small place, lets hope you never have to cry wolf...............

 

Argentina's 'unprecedented' drought pummels farmers and economy

BUENOS AIRES, March 9 (Reuters) - A historic drought ravaging Argentina's crops is deepening the grain exporting giant's economic crisis, crushing farmers across the Pampas, heightening default fears and putting at risk targets agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/argentinas-unprecedented-drought-pummels-farmers-economy-2023-03-09

 

Spain: Long-term drought to bring more heatwaves, widlfires

MADRID (AP) — Spain has officially entered a period of long-term drought, owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years, and likely faces another year of heatwaves and forest fires.

https://apnews.com/article/spain-drought-water-heatwaves-temperatures-forest-fires-33ade88ddeeb6a5b056e406e36f1cd89

 

Water is a strategic natural resource and an essential element of national and regional security. Water scarcity, including lack of access to water, and water pollution can threaten socio-economic development and political stability and security. Water management challenges can potentially trigger disputes and conflicts; 

https://www.osce.org/oceea/446359

[thaibeachlovers]

While the west has been slowly rotating in diminishing circles about such as homosexuality, gender identity, abortion, PC and wokeism, a very real crisis over drinkable water is looming. As sod all has been done about it so far, it will IMO turn into a disaster.

 

They could have been building solar powered desalination plants for the 20 or so years it's been known about, but other than Saudi I know of no major desalination projects.